Accession Data:

Rhipsalis pentaptera Pfeiff. ex A. Dietr.

subg. Rhipsalis

Common Name: Rhipsalis pentaptera

Family: Cactaceae Juss.

Country of Origin: S. Brazil, Uruguay

Habitat: epiphyte in lowland moist forest

Description: The species would have occurred as an epiphyte in lowland moist forest, but the area is now entirely an urban environment. The trees the species grows on, may be remnants of the former forest, but the species cannot be considered to be growing in a truly wild state.4